On Friday, Sept 19, 2025, Prof. Rogério M. Pinto of the University of Michigan School of Social Work (UMSSW) will be joined by four U-M collaborators for Colorism, an evening of live storytelling at Detroit’s Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History (“The Wright”), 350 East Warren Avenue, at 7:30 p.m. (doors, 6:30). Hosting will be Satori Shakoor, Executive Director and founder of Detroit’s Secret Society of Twisted Storytellers.

Colorism will explore how racial categorizations and colorism have shaped the performers’ lives, opportunities, privileges, and prejudices. The performances will reflect ways in which colonial histories, scientific classifications, and social structures have upheld the imagined superiority of light skin and have oppressed those with darker skin tones.